DOC. NO. 30060
to you
who
reads me a thousand
years from now
an impossible you...I
could not begin to imagine
survivor of
WW3
the world almost ceasing
to be
and I, a fragment
of history
a few burnt pages
a charred eye
an happenstance of
history rather than
merit where
all words...any words
were made precious
me now
an historic document
that you try to breath
live into
a me imposible to know
me the so
long ago
eaten by time
devoured by history
the symbolic irony
of the charred eye
the rest of the photo
not making it
and so, my impossible to know
write your academic paper
on this me that has
long ceased to be
but how my thought survives
in my only known poem
words burnt
at the edges
so many unknowns
so many...ellipses
I, Donall Dempsey
artifact No. 30060
returned to the library
at 6.30
Thursday, 30018
the 15th of July